Roundabouts defy drivers ed lessons

The continuing compulsive craze of installing roundabouts makes a mockery of Lincoln’s words of government being “of the people, by the people, and for the people.”

With driver-ed courses based on the five seeing habits of safe driving, roundabouts obliterate four of the five, namely, aim high in steering, get the big picture, keep your eyes moving, and make sure they see you. Leave yourself an out is the only option left to the driver.

And now, towns in northern New Jersey are eliminating roundabouts as a failed 30-year experiment. But if we must persist, let’s try a couple on Lombardi Avenue on either side of the stadium.